When Local and Global Justice Meet Dr Phil Clark gives his talk entitled; 'When local and global justice meet: Field Findings from Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo'. Part of the 2009 Taking Stock of Transitional Justice conferenceAuthor(s): Phil Clark

Consolidating & Reaching Out: Europe as a Global Actor The European Union (EU) has huge potential to enhance its influence in
the world with its 27 Member States and almost 500 million citizens.
Europe is also increasingly connected to the Asia-Pacific area – in
terms of economic relations, crisis management, global environment and
climate issues.
What are the challenges for the external relations of Europe? How to
tap the potential of the Europe-Australia relationship? This address is
a unique opportunity to listen to the views of the PresideAuthor(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

First Taste History & Culture in Indigenous Alcohol Use This public lecture challenges some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of 'grog', by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste: How Indigenous Australians Learned About Grog by Maggie Brady (published by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation). This publication was released the morning before the lecture and is a series of six books. The series is designed to educate and empower Indigenous people on alcohol issues, Author(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

The Global Migration of Skill This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the different measures of ‘brain drain' and how they are related to wage and income differences across countries around the world. Based on new data sources, differences in the prices of skill across countries were estimated and were used to explore how skill price differentials affect the magnitudAuthor(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

Building on Kyoto: Towards a Realistic Global Climate Agreement and What Australia Should Do As a mechanism for controlling climate change, the Kyoto Protocol has not been a success. Over the decade from it’s signing in 1997 to the beginning of its first commitment period in 2008, greenhouse gas emissions in industrial countries subject to targets under the protocol did not fall as the protocol intended. Instead, emissions in many countries rose rapidly. Moreover, emissions have increased substantially in countries such as China, which were not bound by the protocol but which willAuthor(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

Climate Change and Global Health Climate change raises a number of challenges to human wellbeing, among these is the threat to our health. In combination with climate change, large-scale global environmental changes such as loss of biodiversity, changes in fresh water supplies and stresses on food production systems, have the potential to cause systemic adverse alterations in patterns of health and disease. These can combine with many other specific challenges, including the emergence of new infectious diseases and the re-emergAuthor(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

The global energy challenge A stable and sustainable energy supply is one of the major issues of this Century. World-energy demand is expected to increase by about 70% in the coming 20 years, while the production of petroleum - our main source of energy - is likely to peak in this period. The combination of rising demand and declining production of conventional oil raises the question: What is the plan? In the absence of a plan for a sustainable energy supply, coal and non-conventional oil are likely to become the mAuthor(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

Global Climate Change: Perspectives from the Past People are constantly asking how today's climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to search back 55 million years to find a time interval where the rate temperature changes were anywhere near the rate of change that is occurring now. This time interval is called the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). In this lecture, Dr Opdyke compared data from the Eocene to data collected frAuthor(s): Creator not set

License information

Related content

Rights not set

No related items provided in this feed

Debunking ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ Leading expert scientists from ANU and Stanford University presented
critiques of the ABC televised program from the previous evening
entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. The forum was then opened
for general discussion and questions.Author(s): Creator not set

Global Investment Returns Yearbook In a new podcast, Paul Marsh, Emeritus Professor of Finance and co-author of the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook, discusses what information on historic investment returns can tell us about the current crisis